Package: systemd Version: 233-10 Severity: normal I'm not suggesting a change here, but I do think this could use documentation in the release notes and NEWS.Debian file.
Commit 79413b673b45adc98dfeaec882bbdda2343cb2f9 in systemd 228 (between jessie and stretch) effectively broke/disabled the %u, %U, %s and %h specifiers in units. I ran into this with a local unit that used %u, which went from expanding to the value of User to expanding to "root". It took quite a bit of investigating to figure out the cause. At a minimum, I would suggest adding something to the stretch release notes about this, as well as a NEWS.Debian entry. You might also consider, in your next stretch-proposed-updates upload, including the same NEWS.Debian entry.